Hello,
So far, I have:
A working Android build environment (Ubuntu 11.10 x64).
Managed to build, install and boot AOSP on my Nexus S. (I have downloaded but not attempted to build CM7 yet.)
Created a Github account.
Samsung's open source files for my target device, the Galaxy Gio GT-S5660M.
I've read some documentation and forum posts about Github, but I remain unsure as to what I should do to fork in a way that:
I'll be able to keep on syncing the remainder of the code.
My new device directories and modifications could be brought back (pulled?) to the main CM7 code base.
Will avoid needless frustrating re-downloads of the source code.
Thanks in advance,
Darkshado
After some further reading, I'm beginning to grasp some git basics...
I've forked two CM7 repos so far, added them as remotes in the appropriate installations. (Instead of forking and cloning, since I already had repo sync'ed the whole CM7 source. My commits show up on Github like they should, and I should be able to merge in commits to the origin remotes.)
I'm not going to do any pull requests until I've managed to build and boot.
By the way, yesterday I attempted to build AOSP with a bunch of files overwritten by the Samsung sources (that's how they tell you to do it!!) and this failed, as I expected.
Goodbye,
Darkshado
Update: I'm currently trying to port CM7 to the Gio 5660M. Still attempting a first successful build as I'm writing these lines.
My main issue so far has to do with the camera. I get the following error message:
make: *** No rule to make target « out/target/product/gio5660M/obj/lib/libcamera.so », needed by « out/target/product/gio5660M/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libcameraservice_intermediates/LINKED/libcameraservice.so ». Stop.
After toggling off the camera by using the stub, I hit the same error further into the build with this:
make: *** No rule to make target « vendor/samsung/gio5660M/proprietary/wifi/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.0/athtcmd_ram.bin », needed by « out/target/product/gio5660M/system/wifi/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.0/athtcmd_ram.bin ». Stop.
I know this has to do with makefiles, but that's about it...
Thanks in advance for any help,
Darkshado
hi i'm interested too.
hi I found your github because I also interested poriting cyanogemod to galaxy gio korea(SHW-M290K). the device hardware is different from s5660. so I need some modification.
and your libcamera problem is that there is some reason that the make system can't find libcamera.so, so they cannot compile libcamera service. it should be in ./vendor/samsung/gio/proprietary according to your extract-files.sh .
have one cuorisity. I searched gio android device make file. and none of them are relreased source code. how did you make them?
I found this information. it may help you.
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1_PortingGuides
I'll have to update my Github, hadn't been in a rush due to lack of progress, but now my problem lies with libaudio instead.
I got the Samsung sources for the 5660M on their open source website, although I mostly worked with the CM7 ports for similar devices like Tass and Cooper as well as a Gio source provided by Phiexz but it didn't build either.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
proprietary does not help
do you have any progress since last time?
well, I admit that proprietary files does not help.
does your s5660m hardware identical to s5660v?
becasuse galaxy gio in Korea(shw-m290k,shw-m290s) does different hardware.
well in this case, like me, you need to hack into not only android pdk, but also android kenel.
I have seen that phiexz has released kernel with latest cyanogenmod kenel in his github and I am modifing it to shw-m290k. there are some hardware differences i have to apply to.
I suggest you to compare phiexz's kernel and samsung original kernel from samsung opensource homepage.
My problem right now is that I don't have that much spare time to put into this, and that I'm very much learning as I go, so progress is not always that quick. Also, I'd like to get my Touchwiz based ROM updated and working properly before trying to build AOSP or CM again.
Another thing I want to try is building the kernel (probably based on Phiexz's) that will support ext4, and compare performance of the Touchwiz ROM on ext4 versus RFS.
As far as we can tell, GT-S5660 (Europe/Asia) GT-S5660M, L and V are identical except for the radio firmware. People with the 5660M initially encountered issues after flashing 5660 ROMs because they also contained the AMSS image.
my cyanogen kernel is based on samsung open source kernel
because cm-kernel on cyanogenmod github dont support our device, if we wnt use that kernel we must add some hardware pofile & board for galaxy gio
so alternative is make samsung's open source kernel compatible with cyanogenmod
Wouldn't it be much better from a code maintainability standpoint to make the CM kernel work on the Gio? (Also if you ever hope to get official CM team support, that's a given.)
The way I understand repo and git, you could create a github repo for your device and board configs and add those to your repo manifest so the whole CM7 source and your modifications all sync properly.
I've forked the CM7 manifest files off github, added my gio files and removed all those extra devices I didn't need, so my repo syncs are much faster too. (The idea comes from http://slightlymorethanworthless.blogspot.com/2011/05/remove-unwanted-devices-from.html)
hey a quick question...
just starting out here..
i'm on win7 32 bit, going to run ubuntu on virtualbox.
shud i choose ubuntu 32 bit or 64?
sorry for OT.
doesn't really matter
roofrider said:
hey a quick question...
just starting out here..
i'm on win7 32 bit, going to run ubuntu on virtualbox.
shud u choose ubuntu 32 bit or 64?
sorry for OT.
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doesn't really matter. but compiling process needs much cpu power. so 64x would be better.
Well, im not a dev or a user of gt5660m, but good luck to you, hope u can finally port it
Sent from the GUN in my pants
darkshado, if you have same problem untill now.
http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=220
look this page. and check out koush's proprietary page. especially for samsung cooper(galaxy ace). because many of kernel procedure are same for gio.
https://github.com/coolya/android_device_samsung_cooper.git
https://github.com/koush/proprietary_vendor_samsung
i've upload galaxy gio source + proprietary files for galaxy gio
please see & help to fix some problem
github.com/phiexz
Darkshado said:
Hello,
So far, I have:
A working Android build environment (Ubuntu 11.10 x64).
Managed to build, install and boot AOSP on my Nexus S. (I have downloaded but not attempted to build CM7 yet.)
Created a Github account.
Samsung's open source files for my target device, the Galaxy Gio GT-S5660M.
I've read some documentation and forum posts about Github, but I remain unsure as to what I should do to fork in a way that:
I'll be able to keep on syncing the remainder of the code.
My new device directories and modifications could be brought back (pulled?) to the main CM7 code base.
Will avoid needless frustrating re-downloads of the source code.
Thanks in advance,
Darkshado
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Really the best kernel for your phone is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991020
BLN enabled, optimized&stable kernel, jelly bean look
Whoa! Zombie thread!
Dude: the ROM you linked was published over a year after my original post in this thread. I'm pretty sure there was NO CM7 build available for the Gio back then. That's what I was trying to work on, but got beat to the punch by Maclaw and a couple others. (Hard-bricking my Gio and having a sluggish laptop to build on didn't help.)
Besides, I got rid of my Gio a long time ago. I enjoy my Note 2 and keep my Nexus S as backup.
i own samsung galaxy pocket gt-s5300, its like galaxy Y little brother. And i'm trying to build from source.
i'm new in this stuff, so i can't elaborate enough to find solution myself.
i've downloaded the samsung source for this device from samsung website, when extracted it has 2 sources, platform and kernel.
im trying to build the platform and hopefully can build the stock rom successfully so i can proceed to modification.
already followed the instructions to get the gingerbread 2.3.6 from aosp, merge the folders from samsung to aosp, and execute build script (generic-user). seems fine, i got system.img,userdata.img,etc but no boot.img, still tried to flash anyway and figured that this device doesn't support fastboot but adb works. then i tried to make otapackage but got no rule error. perhaps caused by this generic-user lunch, but i dont know how to add this device to build, because there's only generic,emulator,crespo-4g, and crespo choices.
trying to find alternatives, and thinking about modify the stock rom with my build, so i also tried to open the odin flashable stock rom with winrar (xxx.tar.md5) which i cant, i dont know why since the other galaxy rom has no problem.
so many thing i'm not sure of doing it right, so i need help building for this samsung device from source.
bLusiLv said:
i own samsung galaxy pocket gt-s5300, its like galaxy Y little brother. And i'm trying to build from source.
i'm new in this stuff, so i can't elaborate enough to find solution myself.
i've downloaded the samsung source for this device from samsung website, when extracted it has 2 sources, platform and kernel.
im trying to build the platform and hopefully can build the stock rom successfully so i can proceed to modification.
already followed the instructions to get the gingerbread 2.3.6 from aosp, merge the folders from samsung to aosp, and execute build script (generic-user). seems fine, i got system.img,userdata.img,etc but no boot.img, still tried to flash anyway and figured that this device doesn't support fastboot but adb works. then i tried to make otapackage but got no rule error. perhaps caused by this generic-user lunch, but i dont know how to add this device to build, because there's only generic,emulator,crespo-4g, and crespo choices.
trying to find alternatives, and thinking about modify the stock rom with my build, so i also tried to open the odin flashable stock rom with winrar (xxx.tar.md5) which i cant, i dont know why since the other galaxy rom has no problem.
so many thing i'm not sure of doing it right, so i need help building for this samsung device from source.
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I try to do it but i still make a lot of tweaks on my Rom I need to make good performance to my phone
Hi
Short and sweet, I am busy getting into ROM development, and as exercise to get a better grasp on what is going on, I mostly dabbled with AOSP until yesterday. I am in the process of porting Cyanogenmod 10.2 to Galaxy S2 (i9100).
While going through the CM instructions, there was a segment on how to extract "proprietary blobs" from CM running on the device in question. This is required as part of the build for hardware specific reasons they did not give too much details about.
I just have one query. Has anyone tried to, or know if it is possible to do this blob extraction from ROMs other than CyanogenMod?
That's all folks.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 which I want to build an image for. I followed the procedures given by http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_hlte#Prepare_the_device-specific_code and I was able to compile it successfully. But I have an issue, and that is I need to patch the code to get additional functionality. The patch I need to apply is only available for Jelly Bean, and the Cyanogenmod procedures use Kitkat. I tried to manually apply the patch, and I had to remove a number of lines before the image compiled. But when I flash the phone with it, I get an error about NFC adapter. Basically the message says that NFC adapter is disabled. I think I know why it says that. The patch is for allowing extended functionality of NFC adapter, and well you know...It seems like either me or the patch broke the NFC adapter. Most likely it was me I tried to download the Jelly Bean version from Cyanogenmod repo, but the procedures explicitly say not to. And when I tried, I get a repo sync error and the whole thing does not download. So I am trying to do something different. I like to download the phone's source code from Samsung Source code. But that is just the kernel as I understand it. There is a lot of what Cyanogenmod people call "proprietary blob", which they provide a way to extract from the phone. So this is why I am where I am, and I am trying to mix the two together. Please tell me if there is a better way for me. And if not, then I like to know if it is possible for me to replace the Cyanogenmod source that I downloaded from Git repository with the Samsung Source and successfully compile it. I wish I could just download Cyanogenmod's version 10.5; I think they remove the previous version due to resource issues. I am not sure. I have to say Cyanogenmod rocks. My understanding is most developers there and here on this site are really busy. More power to you guys. You are really doing a big service for the open source community. Thank you all.
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Hey folks,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S 8.4" T705 LTE tablet that is very hard to find quality AOSP ROM's for. Not many people are developing for it.
There has been only one AOSP ROM that has full radio/LTE functionality so far. An unofficial CyanogenMOD build:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...official-blck-cyanogenmod-12-sm-t705-t3053004
Unfortunately, the developer has left XDA and abandoned this project. We haven't had an update to the ROM in almost two months.
I'm not a developer or a coder. I do have VMware and basic Linux skills. But I don't have a ton of time to invest in learning how to port a ROM.
How hard would it be for me to take the existing ROM zip (do not have source code) and update it with the latest Cyanogen commits/fixes?
Are we talking about a couple hours of learning or weeks?
I'm guessing I would need the source code?